Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Wyperfeld National Park, Vic

Pods and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Wyperfeld National Park, Vic

Common Name

Mallee Wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Sticky shrub or occasionally a tree to 4m tall. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1-4.5cm long, 1.5-7mm wide, flat, hairless or sparsely hairy, shiny and/or resinous, tips rounded with a very short point. Flower heads yellow, globular, single or in pairs, the stalks arising from the bases of the 'leaves'. Pods hairy. Rare SA.

Description and photo (as Acacia montana var. montana) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 367

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~montana

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=23745&o=1